109: Edward Thorp – The Man Who Beat the Dealer, and Later, Beat the Market
Chat With Traders
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The Importance of Math and Science
"I think that a lot of it was I was an early, very early reader and I got into books a lot," he says. "The things I wanted to think about and talk about, nobody else seemed to be thinking and talking about except adults." When you were three years old your father started teaching you how to read; by the time you were sevenyou could read high school level books comfortably. What do you think it was about particularly math and science that was so interesting to you? Math and science, I didn't, math I like, I just enjoyed numbers. They seemed very interesting and they had rules. It was fun to learn what those rules were. Science came a
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